Democracy Quotes & Sayings

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~ Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear ~

Alan Corenk

~ This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ~

Henry A. Wallace

~ Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by the regular contact with outdoor growths -- animals, trees, sun warmth, and free skies -- or it will dwindle and pale. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson†

~ The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues ñ self-restraint. ~

Edwin Way Teale

~ The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ~

John Acton

~ America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ~

David Brooks

~ The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations. ~

Aung San Suu Kyi

~ Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ~

Flora Lewis

~ The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. ~

Charles de Montesquieu

~ Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. ~

Plato

~ Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. ~

Plato

~ A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. ~

Aristotle

~ Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. ~

Lancelot Hogben

~ An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy. ~

Stead,WilliamThomas

~ The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ~

Lord Acton

~ Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ~

Plato

~ Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. ~

Aristotle

~ The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. ~

Charles de Montesquieu

~ A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ~

Norman Mailer

~ Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. ~

Plato

~ Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny. ~

Gijs de Vries

~ Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~

Alan Corenk

~ Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ~

Charles Edison

~ Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. ~

William Beveridge

~ Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. ~

Harlan Stone

~ No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline. ~

Kofi Annan

~ Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ~

E.B. White

~ America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. ~

John Doolittle

~ Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. ~

Lyndon B. Johnson

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